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“Tenderly” [by Angela Sundtsrom]
Fuck me now in pale-fireparking garages, againstU-haul trucks and trellisedfences that tread-mark skin,against Victorian lamppoststhat lull with their flicker,on grated sidewalks, sideways,upside down in Ferris wheels inreverse in the backseat of theBuick accelerating exponentiallybetween…
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“The Inventors” [by Jim Dolot]
The man who invented spitting,Archimandrus of Boeotia,Was otherwise undistinguished,And tends to be underrated and overlookedBecause of his contemporary, Thespis,Who invented the drama, and Gogulus,Who invented existentialism.This is how it happened.There was a drought, and…
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Traces [by Lera Auerbach]
Untitled – Ink on Handmade Paper by Lera Auerbach 1. When I think of my Great Aunt Rosa, I hear her laughter – deep chuckles rising from the belly of the Earth and exploding…
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Conversation by the Sea [by Vincent Katz]
What do you feel makes life okay?You are constantly feeling older.The way people speak is changing.You no longer know what they want. What do you mean by that wordRespect? I mean knowing my lifeHas…
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Beth Baruch Joselow: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
____________________________________________________ Blacker Pacific Travel this glass canyon on your back, on a sled pulled by dogs blue with fear. As long…
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On “My Life in CIA” by Harry Mathews [by Richard Beard]
From a piece in the TLS shortly after Harry Mathews's death in 2017: <<<|My Life in CIA (2005), set in 1973, is narrated by a character called Harry Mathews, an American Oulipian leading a comfortable life…
